In [ruby-talk:88503], David Alan Black announced the launch of
the new official process for RCRs. The new process is the result of
matz’s desire to further formalize the process, as expressed in his
RubyConf 2003presentation.

Today, Matz announced the availability of ruby 1.8.1 preview1 and,
subsequently, ruby 1.8.1 preview2 || rubyforge mirror As
always, we encourage Rubyists to download this preview release and put
it through its paces. Your testing, bug reports, and patches will lead
to a stable ruby 1.8.1.

Here on the Ruby Garden Wiki comes a page to compile Ruby’s year
2002 and plans on 2003. The deadline is January 9. RubyIn2002
http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyIn2002 This page supports a
following plan: “The Year in Scripting
Languages(Lua/Perl/Python/Ruby/Tcl)”. The aim of that is to encourage
these scripting language communities to collaborate with each other; its
first step is to know neighbors, which will lead us to be able to share
our efforts on scriptings. The chair person is Mitchell N. Charity. see
also: [ruby-talk:60604], [ruby-talk:60731] Final result
can be seen at http://www.vendian.org/language_year/.